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The healing third: does living combined with death arrive at the transcendent, healing third... relation to Jesus myth (more below)?
I'm reading Shadow Dance by David Richo. In it, he says, "Ultimately, a union of opposites is possible neither through conscious ego alone, since it divides, nor through the unconscious alone, since it identifies. It requires a third force, the transcendent function of psyche, which emerges from our struggle with the darkest side of our shadow. In the ancient myth of Perseus slaying Medusa, Pegasus, the horse that rides to spiritual heights, sprang from Medusa's severed head: the healing third."
Can we see the healing third in the myth of the resurrection of Jesus, or in some other way of figuratively or literally combining life and death?
We can also see this healing third at the end of the final film in the Matrix trilogy. Neo, representing life, is combined with Smith, representing death, and the result is a healed Matrix.
And I think this is, in part, why people have children. The child is supposed to be the healing third. But what works and what doesn't?
This question won't stay in Philosophy... how irritating.
2 Answers
- ?Lv 66 years ago
It doesn't really make sense. The conscious ego and the unconscious or subconscious are all aspects of the psyche. Your cells die and are reborn every moment of every day.
Transcendentally speaking, one might have to check their ideas, their beliefs and their entire concept of what is....drop it and start anew. How to say? The child in a sense is like the birth of a new mindset, a new grouping of ideas. How does one become the eyes that see, vs the eyes that think they see. It's different.
It's a personal endeavor, unique to each individual. Desire, imagination and expectation....the greatest of these is expectation. If you expect to see the light, then you will.
In my opinion the shadow aspect of the personality belongs to the subconscious. The stuff we don't look at, the things the ego chooses to ignore. Not that the ego doesn't know the stuff is there....it does, it simply chooses not to delve into it. Maybe pride, maybe fear, maybe it's emotionally painful. There is also stuff the ego is actually not aware of, and so other portions of the psyche take care of that. The inner self is huge, very vast and wise...and still it does not intrude on the ego's right to do what the ego is intended to do.
As for the Jesus myth....I won't go there in detail. The father, the son, and the holy spirit? Spirit is wedded to form, to matter. The entity is some ways is the father, the son is you or me any individual incarnate and the spirit as I mention is the glue that creates reality.
Each of us is creating our own reality, and there are no exceptions to this. Once you know it...you see life differently.
Sorry if I rambled....maybe I didn't even answer your question properly?
Cheers!
- Anonymous6 years ago
Note the triangle as the rising of the two to the One.
Related: "The Path of the Higher Self," "Return to the One: Plotinus's Guide to God-Realization," "Light Is a Living Spirit."